Some people comment on me and my sisters’ names cause they all end in ‘ie’: Melanie, Penelope (but we call her Penny) and Stephanie. Mum said she truely hadn’t noticed that, she was too busy trying to avoid any names that conjured up painful memories of brats she had taught.
I taught a Korean guy once, called: Bum Fuk. For obvious reasons, he searched around for an English name, and came up with…‘Orange’!!!
Mum said she went to school with 18 girls called Nan. They all had a number to go with their name! and HEY, Winnifred is my gran’s name - very common for middle class Victorian baby girls in England.
Going through a tenant’s file the other day, I noticed that one of her sons had an interesting name: De’Jae. Ostensibly, pronounced like DJ.
A friend of mine once taught two twin boys named Cu and CuCu, you know, like the clock.
I can vouch for this as I taught in the same school and knew of the kids.
I used to know someone (before we fell out of touch) whose middle name was Holly. Her surname? Berry. Yes, her parents knew, and yes, they’d done it on purpose.
I was named by my mother’s obstetrician about a week after I was born. Its a very pretty name, but its an archaic Arabic name. On the plus side, it means that at least I’m pretty unique.
I went to school with a kid named Richard Fallis.
No matter how often he insisted that we not abbreviate his first name, it was just too good an opportunity to pass up.
Sometimes we just called him “Redundant”.
I know a Korean guy named Dong.
But… but… but… NaN in Fortran means “Not a Number”. How could they have a number? 
My parents named me something that rhymed with our last name, or rather, with the way that people invariably mispronounced our last name. They insisted that the problem had never occured to them.
So maybe he was just looking for something that didn’t rhyme with anything.
We named our daughter Hannah with the full realization that she would be called Hannah Banana. The beauty part of our plan is that we knew that people would just stop there and not bother to come up with anything worse.
That could have been my mother and her sister, but my grandparents took it one step further…they are Carolyn May and…you guessed it! Marilyn Kay.
I knew a woman in college whose birthday was in late December, and the family surname was Maus. Her parents quite nearly named her Mary Chris.
Nah, she can just call them by their surnames!!
(runs away)
A local kid here in BF, Oklahoma’s name is Shune, pronounced Shawn. Mom wasn’t very good at spelling.